Mobile police arrest robber who pistol-whipped store clerk

MOBILE, Alabama -- A Mobile man remains in Mobile County Metro Jail charged with pistol-whipping, then shooting at a convenience store clerk following an early-morning robbery at a Circle K store, Mobile police said today in a news release.

Police said they were called about 2:40 a.m. to the convenience store at 2306 Airport Blvd., after a man, armed with a gun and his face concealed, walked in and demanded money.

The victim took money from the register, handed it to the robber, who then ordered the clerk to open the safe, police said.

The victim told the robber the safe could not be opened. The robber then went behind the counter, struck the victim in the head with the gun, went back around the counter and fired two shots at the clerk before leaving, running south across Airport, police said.